bell - a verbalization of consciousness

What is the Nature of Writing?

“Straight ahead and strive for tone.” - Paul Desmond

The task of the writer is to bring forth a voice, to convey a sound. On the outside it is simply another form of expression —like painting a picture, carving a sculpture, performing theatre or playing an instrument. The artist in this case plays on meter, on cacophony, on euphany, on analogy. On another level, it is a discipline, demanding patience if one is to be satisfied with the outcome; and yet, maybe satisfaction is not the point. The discipline though is in funneling the richness and vastness of one’s experience through the intellectual center and to strike accord in the reader. Our challenge at the innermost level is to produce in language an echo of what is indescribable. This is a confrontation of what one “knows.”

What is Help?

Help my good friend is necessary! Man, alone and naked, is born unto this Earth in limitation. There are rocks we cannot lift, heights we cannot surmount, widths we cannot circumvent… without help! Authentic help furthers one’s reach in capacity; it is a collection of efforts that deliver extra-ordinary results. The need for help is honest. Our ability to provide help and our availability to receive it is our compass for community.

What is the nature of Prayer?

Without question a most difficult concept for me. Oddly, there is an underwhelming sensation of shame when I pray…. with others particularly; so much so that for many years I thought not to pray all together. The impulse, the aversion is so subtle, and my reaction so non-chalant, that I realize now how unavailable I have been to its import. When I explore this shame that I feel, I know there is inherently a reverence simultaneously for prayer; I can admit that prayer is a sacred gesture. For so long I was unsure of my understanding of God (still am to a degree) but consequently arose my uncertainty of prayer. When I think of the nature of prayer, I see how it is the unification of one’s actions with one’s aim. It is a returning to oneself. The result: a wish inward, outward or upward.

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Good it too.

In the words of Cheng Zu:

If it is good, I good it.
If it is bad, i good it too.

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Help from the other side

“He beats his chest in autumn rage,
to draw attention to his cage.”